Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Communications/Media Studies
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What Would It Mean To Have A ‘Hapa’ Bachelorette? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-13 Akemi Johnson On a recent episode of The Bachelor, the ABC dating reality show that ends its 20th season Monday night, contestant Caila Quinn brings Ben Higgins home to meet her interracial family. “Have…
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Hollywood’s Obsession With the Bottom Line Is Just Discrimination in Disguise Cosmopolitan 2016-02-25 Stephanie Allain Stephanie Allain has worked in Hollywood for more than 30 years, both in and out of the studio system. She’s produced award-winning films including Hustle & Flow, Peeples, Beyond the Lights, and Dear White People. Her next projects include Underground,…
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Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pinky is far from the first Hollywood feature film that depicts an interracial relationship. Despite the evolution of various censorship codes that forbid depicting “miscegenation,” Hollywood has a rich history of mining the salacious or elicit potential from interracial pairing on screen, from Broken Blossoms to Duel in the Sun, Showboat to Imitation…
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“Look, a [picture]!”: Visuality, race, and what we do not see Quarterly Journal of Speech Volume 102, Issue 1, 2016 pages 62-78 DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2015.1136074 Elizabeth Kaszynski Department of Communication and Culture Indiana University This article argues that understanding vision and visuality as associated but distinct terms has significant implications for the ways in which we…
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That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and struck me for reasons I couldn’t quite place at the time, reasons deeply rooted in my struggle to navigate my identity and subjectivity.
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Thank You, Melissa Harris-Perry The Nation 2016-02-29 Dave Zirin Melissa Harris-Perry (You Tube) The most diverse, intellectually bracing show on network news was treated as expendable, and its host would not have it. She and her show will be sorely missed. This weekend, a show that mattered to its audience as few programs on the…
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MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email The Washington Post 2016-02-28 Paul Farhi, Media Reporter MSNBC has parted ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained about preemptions of her weekend program and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network’s treatment, insiders at MSNBC said. Harris-Perry refused to…
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Lupita Nyong’o and Trevor Noah, and Their Meaningful Roles Table for Three The New York Times 2016-02-27 Philip Galanes Lupita Nyong’o, an Oscar-winning actress, and Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show,” at the Dutch in SoHo. Credit Malin Fezehai for The New York Times The most intriguing stars seem to appear from out…